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Bildts (pronounced[bɪlts]ⓘ) is aconservativeHollandic dialect spoken in the largest part of the former municipalityhet Bildt in the Dutch province ofFriesland.[1] The dialect retains features from around 1505, when the area was reclaimed from the sea as ordered byGeorge, Duke of Saxony. In order to achieve this task, workers fromHolland,Zeeland, andBrabant moved toFriesland. The apparent similarity to present-dayFrisian is due to the evolution of Frisian from the sixteenth century into the present.
Bildts is spoken in the towns ofSint Annaparochie (Bildts:Sint-Anne),Sint Jacobiparochie (Sint-Jabik),Vrouwenparochie (Froubuurt),Oudebildtzijl (Ouwe-Syl),Westhoek (De Westhoek) andNij Altoenae. The inhabitants ofMinnertsga, a village located outside thepolder area of the formerMiddelzee and included in the municipality in 1984, do not speak Bildts but West Frisian instead.